The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-10
SPRINGING THE TRAP.
MIR. SMITH PROPOSES TO EXPEDITE
BUSINESS.

a New move Dy the GOVecnm ent-The
Crimes Act Bill Amendmen to be Ex-
i. pedited Sound Advice to the Irish
' People from Omitted Ireland"-Fur-
ther News.
LONDON, June 9--In the House of CONS
mons this afternoon Mr. w H. Smith, the
government leader, gave notice that to-
morrow he would move that the committee
name period at which they would report
the Irish crimes act amendment bill to the
House. The announcement was received
with great cheers and counter cheers.
AN EXCITED THRoNG.
Mr.. Morley. protested against so short
notice. He hoped the government would
postpone making the motion for another
day. [Cries of ''No" from the Ministerial
benchesl Mr.. Smith said he felt sure Mr..
Morley must have expected that the govern
ment would make such proposals. [Opposi-
ton cries of 'No!fl Mr.. Smith then re-
ferred to his statement in the House on
oTuesday, in which he said possibly it would
become his duty to take measures to expe-
9 dite tho public business He said the gov
eInment was unable, until to day, to finally
decide on what course to pursue. The
terms of his notice would be on paper to =
night He refused to name the period he
would ask the committee to fix for reporting
the bill.
Mr. Smith then gave notice that at 10 y.
m. Friday, June II, he would move that the
chairman forthwith put the question on any
motion of an amendment, or any proposal
relating to the clause then under discussion,
and on each remaining clause of the bill.
Replying to a question by Sir William
Vernon Harcourt, Mr.. Smith said that it
was not proposed that these motions should
be carried by particular majority, like the
rules of urgency.
Mr.. Smiths motion proposes that the
crimes bill be reported by June H. The
Parnellites Will oppose the motion by every
means in their power, alleging that it is un-
precedented The Unionists approve the
motion.
A CHANGE ALLOWED.
After the rejection of the several amend
ments to clause and the application of the
cloture rule, Mr.. Balfour moved that the
section providing for the removal of the
venue to London be omitted from the bill.
[Parnellite cheers. He admitted that there
were strong objections to that provision
and said that as long as the ends of the gov
ernment would be attained they would not
show themselves obstinate as to the means
by which the ends were toAbe reached.
They thought it wise and prudent to aban-
don that clause in favor of providing
for trial by the Committee of Judges.
[Cries of oh" ''oh!n and laughter Sir
William Vernon Harcourt declared that the
government would have been unable to have
faced the condemnation which the adoption
of the venue section would have brought
upon them. The present proposal, he said,
was a decent sham. Mr. Smith rose to
speak amid the Parnelte cries of ''Cloture,"
"Cloture," and before he had finished his
first sentence, Mr.. Healy moved that the
question be put. Mr.. Healy's motion was
agreed to amid loud cheers and laughter.
Mr. Balfour's motion was then carried with
out division.
THE GOVERNMENT YIELDS
Mr.. Balfour announced that the pro-
vision for the Committee of Judges would
be included in the second bill, which would
be introduced Immediately, embodying the
new proposals of the Government. Loud
laughter and cheers.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt congratu-
lated the Government upon their new
method of saving time in the House Co
ercion bill No. 2, he said, would probably
be SO ridiculous that it would
require third coercion bill to set it right"
1t is probable that tomorrow or Monday
the Parnellites will raise the debate on the
evictions i'll Ireland Mr.. Gladstone, Mr.
Parnell and other leaders viii speak to-mo
row on Mr.. Smiths proposal. If the debate
should be protracted the cloture rule will be
applied.
DAvITT DISCUSSED BY THE CABINET.
The Cabinet held meeting to-day. lasting
an hour and fifty minutes The subjects dis
cussed were the speeches made by Michael
Davitt in Ireland during the past fortnight,
in which he counselled the tenants to resist
eviction by all means at their command,
and the report of Col Sir Joseph Ridgeway
on the progress of the Afghan Boundary
Commission work.
NO RETALIATION.
DUBLIN, June 9.-United Ireland Mr.
Parnelfs organ urges the Irish people to
further patience. 1t denounces those men
who advocate retaliation for the oppression
of the Irish, and says that such a course
would undo the work Mr.. Parnell had ac-
complished during decade of terrible years,
and the work to which Mr. Gladstone was
devoting the evening Of his life.
DISAGREED ON A LIBEL SUIT.
The second trial of Mr. Hastings, editor Of
the Irish Citizen, for libeliug Byrne, of the
Freenons Journal, and his wife, by con-
Meeting them with the Phoenix Park muir
ders was held to-day. The defense of Mr..
Hastings was that he had referred to
another Byrne The jury again disagreed.
An anti-eviction demonstration was held
at Burr to-day and temporary structures
were built for sheltering the evicted tenants.